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Try These Fishing Tips to Creating Free Web Traffic |
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The passive fishing rod model tends to fall into the pay for traffic section. Pay Per Click, Banners, Classifieds all seem to stand still while people pass by them. Selected viewers will stop to pay attention if they relate to the online advertising. Blogging and videos online are examples of free fishing rod models. Pros put a series of fishing rods in the water and watch to see which ones get a bite
The biggest obstacle for business owners who want to transition to the Internet is figuring out how to get customers to come and buy from their website. The idea of actively courting leads is not a familiar one to many small business people who have ads created and advertise in a passive marketing environment.
They are more comfortable with Pay Per Click because the marketing model is similar. It's the difference between using a fishing rod, fishing net and a spear gun to catch fish.
Free web traffic sources fall under these three categories.
The passive fishing rod model tends to fall into the pay for traffic section. Pay Per Click, Banners, Classifieds all seem to stand still while people pass by them. Selected viewers will stop to pay attention if they relate to the online advertising. Blogging and videos online are examples of free fishing rod models. Pros put a series of fishing rods in the water and watch to see which ones get a bite.
The fishing net approach can either be spam or legitimate email campaigns. The idea is to send out an offer to your email list and get a percent of the list converted. You'll still need to give the fishing net a targeted list in order to be successful. I recommend you not use the spam version of the fishing net approach. Joint ventures, FFA sites, Web rings, and social networking groups are more appropriate.
The spear fishing method is social networking in which you actively search for friends and other like minded people. The forums are another spear fishing method that requires you to poke around and contribute regularly to targeted forums. You develop a reputation, collect leads and in some cases make direct offers on forums.
Article marketing actually falls into several categories because it does so many different things. You directly include your articles into the distribution chain but you get the benefit of back links, mass distribution, and direct links to your site along with the opportunity to post an offer at the bottom of your articles.
These methods allow you to gain relatively free traffic to your site. You will however be spending time executing the various methods so be consistent in your efforts and organize your time. |
